With the release of the “September – 2010” TFS 2010 Power Tools, came an addition to the Team Foundation Server Administration Console. This addition is the Team Foundation Backups Tree item. The tool ...

A couple of months ago, a friend found a bit of information on TechNet that has proven to be quite useful. See, I am of the opinion SharePoint allows for smaller deployments to be made, and with that said, ...

There have been many things going on this year around TFS. Most of them had to do with migrations (I don’t call them upgrades for the most part since it involved new hardware and such). Many were implementations ...

Recently there have been more and more requests on how to have TFS 2010 and Project 2010 together. Most of the requests have been around working with Agile and Scrum projects and templates. There are some ...

Here are the resource links for the Administering Team Foundation Server 2010 Class from last week in Minneapolis. Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 and Team Foundation Server® 2010 RTM virtual machine for ...

I can never remember how to rollback a check-in, and there all kinds of mess in search results about this (change between different versions of TFS etc), so I thought I’d just put this here so I won’t ...

The session is going to cover and discuss the role TFS can play in the management of SharePoint implementations, custom development and delivery of solutions. Check it out here and register … http://sharepoint.microsoft... ...

Actually, for snacks too, and it is nearly everywhere I turn. If I do Microsoft Exchange work, I know I will run into it. Active Directory, SQL Server, TFS, SharePoint, Azure and most recently Lync. All ...

Yep! Another round of stuff to test out, I am referring to the Visual Studio 2010 SP1 related Betas. They are out, and available. The always present warning that normally comes with installing Beta stuff ...

If you had downloaded the previous version of the virtual machines, then you are likely aware they are set to expire soon (12/15/2010). Brian Keller announced yesterday (blog post here) the availability ...

This error occurred on our TFS2008 build server which we had upgraded to cater for VS2010 projects (by installing VS2010 on the build server - see this article). Error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program ...

Two separate emails arrived in my Inbox. Email #1: The results of detailed survey of UK ISVs which we had commissioned – what makes them tick etc. In that survey it stated “76% of ISVs do not use any ALM ...

Two months ago I blogged about NDepend and it's main features here. Now the NDepend team present the new NDepend v3.5 Enhanced Reports. Check by yourself new reports on some of the most popular OSS projects: ...

A couple of days ago, I posted the general steps to create a Web Application using Central Administration for WSS 3.0. Now we are back from the past, and moving into SharePoint Foundation 2010. Assumptions ...

Knowing fully we are now in SharePoint Foundation 2010 territory, I am going back in time. There are still questions around how to configure or create a Web Application and then a Site Collection using ...

When checking in code with workitems, one should connect them with workitems. In some cases you need to check in multiple times before the item is resolved. If you are too quick there, the checkin action ...

So, what would seem to be a simple problem, automating the build of an MSI on the TFS build server – using a Microsoft .vdproj setup project type should be a doddle. Add a new build configuration (cunningly ...

Recently we upgraded one of our solutions from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010. After checking in our code to our 2008 Team Foundation Server, the CI build unexpectedly failed. We were getting ...

Just wanted to put forward a recommendation to anyone who may be interested in a hosted TFS solution. As a regular traveller its quite tough to keep on top of some of my blog and other projects so for ...

Turns out you can't just move a TFS warehouse/cube from SQL Server 2005 to 2008... Once performed we got the following error on the TFS app server tier - when we tried to update/process the cube (both ...

I didn’t go to the Microsoft’s PDC Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC) this year because it was, as far as I could tell, a made-for-streaming video event. As such, I watched the keynote about 24 ...

So, while I didn’t get to attend PDC2010, I did get to watch it live at the Microsoft Offices in Johannesburg. It had all the usual things I was expecting, Windows Phone 7 Demo’s, Azure Demo’s and Balmer ...

Last week my office integration from Team Explorer stopped working. the Team menu in excel was gone and when I tried to open a WI-query from VS I got this error message: TF80012: The document cannot be ...

Visual Studio 2010 is the new and improved development tool for SharePoint 2010. Major improvements are that all the Project Templates for SharePoint 2010 are included out of the box. This means a better ...

*Moved to: TFS 2010 Work Item Seed: TFS Work Item system.id at a predefined numberThis week my customer had a requirement to have all new work items created to have an ID greater than 40,000. They have ...

Hi All, I just wanted to let people know about this great event. It is being lead by Imaginet Resources Corp. If you don't know Aaron Kowal and what he does with ALM, do make an effort to attend these ...

UPDATED: Feb 16th 2012: Workaround #1 and #2 only works when run-time checking is not enabled. Added workaround #2B which seems to work. Thanks to David S, Michael S and ZbynekZ for pointing this out, ...

*Moved to: TFS vs. Subversion fact checkI spotted a good comparison of TFS vs. Subversion by Jaroslaw Dobrzanski on DZone (you can also read the original post) but I feel that a couple of the points were ...

*Moved to: Syncing many Dynamics AX instances to a single TFS 2010 Team ProjectI have been working with a customer who had been frustrated with the need to have new Team Project for every instance of AX ...

Recently I have been reading about how some companies offer services that would provide you with Team Foundation Server capabilities in the cloud. When we talk about cloud (and it seems everybody is doing ...

Here’s how we migrated our TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. This is not an in-place migration. What is generally recommended as upgrade path is to backup the TFS 2008 DBs, restore them in the new TFS data tier and ...

*Moved to: Database corruption in TFS 2005 causes TF246017 during upgradeToday I was on-site to do a test upgrade of TFS 2005 to TFS 2010 and we encountered an error that would have caused major delays ...

Working on the same solution as problem 1. This time it was a binary reference to two dlls. The app would build on my system but not on the tfs build server. Well, after lots of playing around i found ...

*Moved to: Team Foundation Server 2010 Event Handling with SubscribersThere is a lot of references and blog posts on how to handle SOAP events raised by Team Foundation Server 2005, 2008 and 2010 but is ...

Here’s a recent post I made to the MSDN Forums and the reply which quickly fixed my problem. I’m posting it here, because I didn’t find it anywhere else on the web. I'm in the process of migrating projects ...

Here I had a plan to post in September almost the same way I did in May, June and July, but business has been good (and I hope to not jinx it). There has been plenty of stuff going on, TFS 2010 left and ...

Thanks to everyone who attended the “Flip on LightSwitch!” at the Kansas City Office Geeks User Group last night! Lots of great questions and interaction from the group! As promised, here are the resources ...